Search results for "Pound force" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • St Ouen's Bay; on January 6, 1781, a force lead by Baron de Rullecourt ... Pound coins are issued, but are much less widely used than pound notes ...
    44 KB (6,712 words) - 18:59, 16 October 2022
  • flow rate is one gallon of solvent per pound of garments (roughly eight ... may cause the textile to fail under normal force during the extraction cycle ...
    18 KB (2,825 words) - 21:15, 30 January 2024
  • laborers, served as the driving popular force behind the revolution. They ... of bread should be fixed at three sous a pound, that nobles holding senior ...
    31 KB (4,299 words) - 01:21, 21 April 2023
  • For a 1914 World Magazine article, she submitted to force-feeding ... with letters of introduction to Ezra Pound and James Joyce, and she ...
    26 KB (3,975 words) - 16:29, 29 January 2024
  • recent centuries seems to be an underlying force driving the usage, as new ... ; Vopo (for Volkspolizist, member of police force in the GDR); Mufuti or MuFuTi ...
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  • armed citizens surrounded the Convention to force the deputies to deliver the ... of bread should be fixed at three sous a pound, that nobles holding senior ...
    32 KB (4,897 words) - 15:20, 31 August 2022
  • The cubs are born blind, toothless, hairless and weigh less than 1 ... tiger, even bears of the same size are a force to be reckoned with when ...
    31 KB (4,742 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
  • (1686) had described gravity as a force between masses, but experiments ... call fictitious forces (such as the force pressing the driver of an ...
    66 KB (9,838 words) - 15:01, 26 September 2022
  • is not as though we perceive some sort of force passing from one to the other ... instance, the final cause of a hammer is to pound nails. In the Nicomachean ...
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  • 0813938332), 54. The walls mounted 18 eight-pound guns and 12 smaller pieces ... A substantial force of Royal Army troops encamped on the Champ de ...
    35 KB (5,341 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
  • and minerals all posses this vital force in varying amounts. The supernatural ... or Northern regions of Ghana or Nigeria pound millet in long mortars, creating ...
    41 KB (6,461 words) - 06:06, 16 June 2023
  • :By force of sight and might of rapture, fair :As dreams that die and ... immediately after his death. The young Ezra Pound thought Swinburne and the ...
    19 KB (3,190 words) - 21:27, 20 July 2023
  • Explosive force is released in a direction perpendicular to the surface ... cause an explosion. For example, although a pound of coal yields five times ...
    41 KB (6,258 words) - 23:56, 24 March 2024
  • from the harsh rhythms of Beowulf; Ezra Pound was influenced deeply by ... the hall itself might fall down from the force of their battle. Beowulf ...
    26 KB (4,193 words) - 10:54, 28 September 2023
  • Government of Alexander Kerensky by force of arms. Reed and Bryant ... the bread supply from 2 pounds a day to 1 pound, to half a pound, to a quarter ...
    41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
  • as an English novel of great dramatic force and intellectual subtlety. ... and canals through which we do so love to force our utterance. We can break ...
    40 KB (6,070 words) - 07:34, 12 January 2024
  • wooden plug. When fired, the iron cap would force itself into the hollow cavity ... is usually given in grains (one avoirdupois pound = 7000 grains), but elsewhere ...
    22 KB (3,492 words) - 18:43, 22 November 2023
  • global commerce with the implied threat of force, thus initiating a period ... the shogunal army and create an elite force, and an order was placed ...
    49 KB (7,292 words) - 13:40, 28 April 2020
  • sent a 300,000 strong British Expeditionary Force to Belgium, which later had ... triggered a crisis of confidence in the pound, and Labour ministers grappled ...
    55 KB (8,451 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
  • While the German Army was preparing to land an assault force of two ... 1 shilling, 2 shillings, 10 shillings and 1 pound, which were issued in 1942 ...
    28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023

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